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Delayed on American Airlines from Heathrow to Charlotte?

£520each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
2,104
Landed on time
72.0%
Land 3 hrs or more late
36a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£520each under UK law

Leaving Charlotte

£520each under UK law

Charlotte is outside the UK and EU, so coming back this only applies if a UK or EU airline operated the flight.

Heathrow to Charlotte is 6,409 km, which fixes the figure: £520 each leaving Heathrow, and the same £520 each coming back if a UK or EU airline operated the flight. It is per person, so four of you is £2,080.

How American Airlines does on this route

American Airlines is the only airline we track on this route

Nobody else we hold data for flies Heathrow to Charlotte, so these are the route's numbers as well as American Airlines's. The comparison worth making is against the rest of its own network, below.

On this route American
Landed on time 72.0%
Average delay 24.4 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 1.7%

Against its own network it is 2.1 points worse than usual: American Airlines lands on time 74.1% of the time across all 15,514 of its UK flights a year, against 72.0% here.

In money terms: about 3 flights a month on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 60. Everyone on board one of those is owed £520 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for American Airlines.

Everything we hold on Heathrow to Charlotte · American Airlines across every UK airport

Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority punctuality statistics, July 2025 to June 2026. Analysis by CheckFlightCompensation; the CAA is credited as the data source as its publication conditions require. Figures cover the 25 largest UK airports. Methodology and limitations.